A 180-day grace period followed, during which the publisher would be required to gets its stock price above the $1 per share mark for at least 10 consecutive days. A 10-for-1 reverse stock split whittled down the total number of shares to roughly 7 million, from a former 70 million. This in turn brought the overall value of each share up to the point that THQ was able to meet the minimum NASDAQ requirements.